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How HN took it
2 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
marimo is the future of notebooks and solves collaboration and Jupyter pain points
From 2 comments
Marimo is the future of notebooks! This solves so many problems with collaboration using notebooks. Rooting for you guys!
lahuard on HNTY for marimo! A realy well thought out project solving lots of jupiter pain points.
sheepy on HN
Objections
Notebooks are public and may be indexed by search engines
From 2 comments
Is there anything you are doing to prevent these notebooks from being indexed by Google/etc? Gists will show up in google search results if they've been linked from anywhere that…
VoidWhisperer on HN> I just turned off /notebooks in robots.txt That doesn't actually stop pages being indexed. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/block-indexing
jarofgreen on HN
Performance is unreliable; notebooks sometimes fail to connect to the runtime
From 2 comments
Its completely failed several times in the course of an hour for me :'(
hmartin on HNI was hopeful for Wasm to make this work better but it just didn't. really cool to see this available - i was wondering what the next step was.
matsonj on HN
Not available for self-hosting
From 1 comment
Hi Akshay, it isn't clear from above writeup - is this open for self-hosting (I have an education usecase)? Couldn't find anything on this in the repo.
anilgulecha on HN
Requests
Self-hosting option
From 1 comment
Hi Akshay, it isn't clear from above writeup - is this open for self-hosting (I have an education usecase)? Couldn't find anything on this in the repo.
anilgulecha on HN
Video tutorial
From 1 comment
I think it would be better if there was a videotutorial to explain it.
countfeng on HN
Clearer privacy policy
From 1 comment
This sounds like a good tool that would help ease the usage of adopting marimo for some of the tasks that people usually use colab for. It can be used for teaching and tutorials…
elashri on HN
Questions
Can notebooks be indexed by Google?
From 1 comment
Is there anything you are doing to prevent these notebooks from being indexed by Google/etc? Gists will show up in google search results if they've been linked from anywhere that…
VoidWhisperer on HN
Is it a persistent version of marimo.app?
From 1 comment
I guess this is a persistent version of marimo.app ?
dcreater on HN
Alternatives named
Google Colab
From 1 comment
marimo.app (WASM)
From 1 comment
I guess this is a persistent version of marimo.app ?
dcreater on HN
Starboard notebook
From 1 comment
Thanks. marimo is cool, but spinning up N backends for scale would not be tenable cost wise. Currently looks like there's this very cool full-frontend notebook tool:…
anilgulecha on HN
Jupyter
From 1 comment
Hi! molab is not available for self-hosting. For self-hosting, you have a few options: Use marimo open source. This can be self-hosted in the same way that Jupyter can. Repo:…
akshayka on HN